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The Brief Therapy Institute of Sydney (BTIS) is a centre in Sydney's western suburbs — committed to being a
"centre of excellence" for practice, training and supervision in Solution-focused Brief Therapy and applications of "the strengths perspective". We are committed to Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (psychotherapy/counselling), but also to the application of Solution-Focused ideas in broader contexts — coaching, leadership, school welfare and discipline, management, supervision and organisational settings.

We are the leading provider of Brief Therapy training and consultation in Australia. Michael Durrant was honoured to have a close personal friendship with a number of the founders of the Solution-Focused approach — particularly Steve de Shazer, Eve Lipchik and Insoo Kim Berg. The Brief Therapy training and consultation we offer stands proudly on the shoulders of Steve de Shazer, Insoo Kim Berg and Eve Lipchik, and others.

Many people in Australia and New Zealand who identify themselves as Solution-Focused Brief Therapists have begun their Solution-Focused journey in BTIS training. As well as the 200 or more people who attend our Solution-Focused Brief Therapy training courses each year, we have provided Leadership training for staff working with preschools and special-needs children in South-east Queensland, supervision training for welfare agencies in Mt Gambier (in rural South Australia), training in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy for counsellors and caseworkers in a family welfare agency in Darwin and a child protection agency in inner-city Sydney. We have worked with the whole staff of a primary school in New Plymouth, New Zealand as well as with high-performance coaches at the New Zealand Institute of Sport. Both of these looked at how Solution-Focused ideas help us promote what is best in students or athletes (rather than figuring out how to "fix" what is wrong). We worked with an adolescent sexual offenders program in the wilds of Montana, USA and have conducted training for educational psychologists and school personnel in London.

The Brief Therapy Institute of Sydney offers a range of services:

A program of professional training in Solution-focused Brief Therapy and applications of
the strengths perspective. Training includes one- and two-day courses held in Parramatta — also in Orange
and in Melbourne.

Professional supervision for counselling, education and human services professionals who wish to further
their skills and experience in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy and/or in "strengths-based" approaches to working.
We have experience providing supervision to individual practitioners — either on a "one-off" case consultation
basis or on an ongoing basis &— ; and in providing external supervision to teams within the mental health, adolescent
and family, school and alternate care settings.

"Customised" and workplace training — any of the Institute's training courses can be provided onsite
at your workplace or agency for a group of employees and we work with you to "customise" the program so that it
meets the particular needs of your organisation.

Consultation in program development and management is available for organisations who are
developing more of a strengths focus in their work and wish to explore its implications for organisation
and management.

Therapy — Our counselling or therapy services at the Brief Therapy Institute of Sydney are limited
at the moment. Michael is not able to accept therapy referrals at present. For details of therapists associated with us and recommended by us, please click on the "Need to
see a therapist?" link at left.

2018 training

After some technical glitches, our 2018 training calendar is now available HERE.

Solution-Focused training in Melbourne & Adelaide.

The course Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: A Comprehensive
Introduction, with Michael Durrant, scheduled for Melbourne and in Adelaide has been cancelled due to circumstances beyond our control. The training will be rescheduled for later in the year.

Training in Perth

Two-day Solution-Focused training will be offered in Perth in June through Compass Seminars — and one-day training Post-Traumatic Success in Bunbury (south of Perth).

JOIN the Australasian Association for Solution-Focused Brief Therapy — an ANNUAL Aust & NZ conference
, a peer-reviewed journal, local interest groups, and more. Michael Durrant is honoured to be
President of the Association. Conference in Melbourne in July 2018!